By Grant Segall, The Plain Dealer
Ann Murphy Halle Little flew a biplane, co-published a book about the family store and promoted modern art and architecture.
Little died at home Monday, Jan. 16, in the historic Pepper Ridge neighborhood she co-founded in Pepper Pike. She was 97.
The youngest of five children, she spent winters in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Cleveland Heights and summers at Hallefarm, later donated for Penitentiary Glen Reservation in Kirtland Hills. On weekends, when the Halle Brothers' department store was closed, she'd sometimes go to its 10-story, terra-cotta building at Euclid Avenue and Huron Road with her father, Sam Halle. He'd work, and she'd give herself rides in the elevator.
By 16, she earned a pilot's license. She spent vacations flying a biplane across the country. She graduated from Laurel School, Smith College and the Cambridge School of Architecture in Massachusetts.
She joined a Boston firm and met a colleague, Robert A. Little, descended from Paul Revere. She asked Little to help her survey land for a house she was building in Cleveland. They married here three months later and moved here in 1945.
Ann helped Robert's practice, building models, designing interiors and furniture and photographing work. His first commission here was a Halle store at Shaker Square. He quickly became a leading local modernist.
The Littles and two other families bought a 65-acre farm and turned it into Pepper Ridge. Opening in 1952, the Ridge was a close-knit colony of highly contemporary homes on a winding road with a common pool and tennis court. The Littles built themselves a flat-roofed, three-level showpiece on a hillside on four acres there.
Ann Little co-founded the Ten-Thirty Gallery, Cleveland's first non-profit, contemporary gallery, which helped launch pop art star Roy Lichtenstein. She was a trustee of several other nonprofits, including Laurel and Karamu House. She frequented Halle's before its 1982 closing and co-published a history of it.
Little outlived her husband; her son, Revere, a popular folk-singer; and her four siblings, including Walter, who ran Halle's, and Kay, who became a leading journalist and hostess in Washington D.C.
Survivors include her son, Sam, an architect in Philadelphia, and four grandsons.
Ann Murphy Halle Little flew a biplane, co-published a book about the family store and promoted modern art and architecture.
Little died at home Monday, Jan. 16, in the historic Pepper Ridge neighborhood she co-founded in Pepper Pike. She was 97.
The youngest of five children, she spent winters in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Cleveland Heights and summers at Hallefarm, later donated for Penitentiary Glen Reservation in Kirtland Hills. On weekends, when the Halle Brothers' department store was closed, she'd sometimes go to its 10-story, terra-cotta building at Euclid Avenue and Huron Road with her father, Sam Halle. He'd work, and she'd give herself rides in the elevator.
By 16, she earned a pilot's license. She spent vacations flying a biplane across the country. She graduated from Laurel School, Smith College and the Cambridge School of Architecture in Massachusetts.
She joined a Boston firm and met a colleague, Robert A. Little, descended from Paul Revere. She asked Little to help her survey land for a house she was building in Cleveland. They married here three months later and moved here in 1945.
Ann helped Robert's practice, building models, designing interiors and furniture and photographing work. His first commission here was a Halle store at Shaker Square. He quickly became a leading local modernist.
The Littles and two other families bought a 65-acre farm and turned it into Pepper Ridge. Opening in 1952, the Ridge was a close-knit colony of highly contemporary homes on a winding road with a common pool and tennis court. The Littles built themselves a flat-roofed, three-level showpiece on a hillside on four acres there.
Ann Little co-founded the Ten-Thirty Gallery, Cleveland's first non-profit, contemporary gallery, which helped launch pop art star Roy Lichtenstein. She was a trustee of several other nonprofits, including Laurel and Karamu House. She frequented Halle's before its 1982 closing and co-published a history of it.
Little outlived her husband; her son, Revere, a popular folk-singer; and her four siblings, including Walter, who ran Halle's, and Kay, who became a leading journalist and hostess in Washington D.C.
Survivors include her son, Sam, an architect in Philadelphia, and four grandsons.
By Grant Segall, The Plain Dealer
Ann Murphy Halle Little flew a biplane, co-published a book about the family store and promoted modern art and architecture.
Little died at home Monday, Jan. 16, in the historic Pepper Ridge neighborhood she co-founded in Pepper Pike. She was 97.
The youngest of five children, she spent winters in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Cleveland Heights and summers at Hallefarm, later donated for Penitentiary Glen Reservation in Kirtland Hills. On weekends, when the Halle Brothers' department store was closed, she'd sometimes go to its 10-story, terra-cotta building at Euclid Avenue and Huron Road with her father, Sam Halle. He'd work, and she'd give herself rides in the elevator.
By 16, she earned a pilot's license. She spent vacations flying a biplane across the country. She graduated from Laurel School, Smith College and the Cambridge School of Architecture in Massachusetts.
She joined a Boston firm and met a colleague, Robert A. Little, descended from Paul Revere. She asked Little to help her survey land for a house she was building in Cleveland. They married here three months later and moved here in 1945.
Ann helped Robert's practice, building models, designing interiors and furniture and photographing work. His first commission here was a Halle store at Shaker Square. He quickly became a leading local modernist.
The Littles and two other families bought a 65-acre farm and turned it into Pepper Ridge. Opening in 1952, the Ridge was a close-knit colony of highly contemporary homes on a winding road with a common pool and tennis court. The Littles built themselves a flat-roofed, three-level showpiece on a hillside on four acres there.
Ann Little co-founded the Ten-Thirty Gallery, Cleveland's first non-profit, contemporary gallery, which helped launch pop art star Roy Lichtenstein. She was a trustee of several other nonprofits, including Laurel and Karamu House. She frequented Halle's before its 1982 closing and co-published a history of it.
Little outlived her husband; her son, Revere, a popular folk-singer; and her four siblings, including Walter, who ran Halle's, and Kay, who became a leading journalist and hostess in Washington D.C.
Survivors include her son, Sam, an architect in Philadelphia, and four grandsons.
Ann Murphy Halle Little flew a biplane, co-published a book about the family store and promoted modern art and architecture.
Little died at home Monday, Jan. 16, in the historic Pepper Ridge neighborhood she co-founded in Pepper Pike. She was 97.
The youngest of five children, she spent winters in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Cleveland Heights and summers at Hallefarm, later donated for Penitentiary Glen Reservation in Kirtland Hills. On weekends, when the Halle Brothers' department store was closed, she'd sometimes go to its 10-story, terra-cotta building at Euclid Avenue and Huron Road with her father, Sam Halle. He'd work, and she'd give herself rides in the elevator.
By 16, she earned a pilot's license. She spent vacations flying a biplane across the country. She graduated from Laurel School, Smith College and the Cambridge School of Architecture in Massachusetts.
She joined a Boston firm and met a colleague, Robert A. Little, descended from Paul Revere. She asked Little to help her survey land for a house she was building in Cleveland. They married here three months later and moved here in 1945.
Ann helped Robert's practice, building models, designing interiors and furniture and photographing work. His first commission here was a Halle store at Shaker Square. He quickly became a leading local modernist.
The Littles and two other families bought a 65-acre farm and turned it into Pepper Ridge. Opening in 1952, the Ridge was a close-knit colony of highly contemporary homes on a winding road with a common pool and tennis court. The Littles built themselves a flat-roofed, three-level showpiece on a hillside on four acres there.
Ann Little co-founded the Ten-Thirty Gallery, Cleveland's first non-profit, contemporary gallery, which helped launch pop art star Roy Lichtenstein. She was a trustee of several other nonprofits, including Laurel and Karamu House. She frequented Halle's before its 1982 closing and co-published a history of it.
Little outlived her husband; her son, Revere, a popular folk-singer; and her four siblings, including Walter, who ran Halle's, and Kay, who became a leading journalist and hostess in Washington D.C.
Survivors include her son, Sam, an architect in Philadelphia, and four grandsons.
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